Storytales Festival 2021
Room for stories!
Here you can find an interactive exhibition with over 150 selected books for children and young adults, that illustrate multifaceted stories and realities. Embedded in a room installation, the exhibition offers enough space for (cozy)reading, discovering and exchanging and Impulses, to tell your own stories. A selection of multilingual children books from the White Ravens exhibition will also be available. Various hands-on stations encourage you to get involved, to leave something behind and take it with you.
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program 2021
Multimedia readings and workshops by renowned authors will take place on two stages. The evening program is aimed at interested adults, educators, Multipliers and parents.
01.09. Wed
Storyteam
The Storytales story festival is officially opened. Let yourself be surprised.
My Migrant Mama
The authors and founders Melisa Manrique and Manik Chander read from their award-winning book “Mama Superstar”.
02.09. Thu
Julia Ronge
For children and teens from 10 years | Why is the prince brave and the princess beautiful and virtuous? What would the princesses and princes look like today and what challenges would they have to face?
Lisa Natalie Arnold, Günther Harder, Rita Fürstenau
Picture book cinema and drawing workshop for children from 4 years | Wonderfully read and musically accompanied by the actors Lisa Natalie Arnold and Günther Harder, this picture book cinema invites young and old into a colorful world full of poetry and music, which can be further explored in the subsequent children's workshop with publisher Rita Fürstenau.
Sasa Stanisic
ONLINE via Zoom | from 4 years | A taxi is a magical vehicle for a child. A witch broom on four wheels. You get in and the taxi fulfills your travel wish. What, if the magic went even further?
Christiane Kassama
ONLINE via Zoom | ENGLISH TRANSLATION at Kulturzentrum Schlachthof provided | Children's books are fantasy, experience, language, education, identity and security. Then why can diversity, sensitivity to racism and diversity still not be taken for granted in children books?
03.09. Fri
Julia Ronge
What would the princesses and princes look like today and what challenges would they have to face? Why is the prince brave and the princess beautiful and virtuous?
Eymard Toledo
Unfortunately, Eymard Toledo cannot come to Kassel today due to illness. We hope, that she recovers quickly and that the reading can take place online on Saturday. Instead, you can - children and adults- take part in the workshop The brave princess and the pious prince with Julia Ronge from the Grimmwelt Kassel. from [...]
Joris Bas Backer
Something is wrong, something feels weird and Jet tries to find out, what exactly is going on with her. Very slowly the realization matures in her, that she may be more of a boy than a girl. But is that possible?
Read the room
Awareness of and strategies against discrimination - that's what this workshop is about. We learn to read spaces and situations and to reflect our positions in them.
04.09. Sat
Eymard Toledo
from 6 years | The twin girls Juju and Jojô live in a very, very big city. In order to see the sky, you have to put your head back. Previously, their neighbor says, her house was the highest in the quarter.
Andrea Karimé
from 6 years | In her book "Nuri und der Geschichtenteppich", Andrea Karimé tells the story of a not so easy integration in a foreign country and of the fact that , it can also succeed.
Alexandra Koch
ONLINE via Zoom | Children and teens with disabilities are still rarely visible- in children and young adult books. Alexandra Koch shows us many examples, what a good inclusive kids- and young adult book looks like, which criteria are really important and where we (as parents, educators, publishers and bookshop owners) can pay more attention.
Andrea Karimé
from 8 years | In this writing workshop, words are collected and made up, poems are written and stories invented. Everything has its place here. All languages and topics can be used, mixed, invented and introduced. In the end, each child creates a mini magazine, called zine, that can be reproduced and distributed.
Lucia Zamolo
A hodgepodge of thoughts and stories about menstruation. Inspired by conversations and observations, Lucia Zamolo collects thoughts and facts , which are often seen as taboo. Why am I blushing a little, if a tampon falls out of my pocket in public? Why say [...]
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What makes up a good (picture)book? Which characters and stories do we encounter?? How are they told and presented? And what stories do we miss? Images and stories shape us and our view of the world. We grow up with them and learn to understand and act through them. Many people's stories [...]
05.09. Sun
Olinga Ok and Emily Bowe
from 11 years | When we write, we process a lot and think out loud on paper. Photo. Photo, how you see the world.
Thomas Wellmann
ONLINE | from 6 years | Nika likes metal, video games and action. Lotte is super athletic, super accurate and super smart. Mangold likes to carry stuff around, has the best taste in clothes and makes the best ass bombs.
Andrea Karimé
from 8 years | In this writing workshop, words are collected and made up, poems are written and stories invented. Everything has its place here. All languages and topics can be used, mixed, invented and introduced. In the end, each child creates a mini magazine, called zine, that can be reproduced and distributed.
Dita Zipfel
from 10 years | Dita Zipfel tells the story of a wonderfully intrepid heroine and the courage, to be different. For this she was awarded the German Youth Literature Prize 2020 ..